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Free Utility Adds A New "Text Functions" Menu To All Windows Apps
How often do you find yourself typing text, or program code, into an editor and wishing the program had the ability to do a word count, or strip HTML code, or remove duplicate lines, or fix the mixed case, or remove unnecessary spaces?
Dolphin Text Menu is a very clever Windows utility, which adds a new set of menus to every Windows app. Just press the hotkey, and it pops up, ready to operate on whatever text you have selected.
It works with just about every Windows program, from Word to Notepad, including programming tools such as PSPad and Visual Studio. It runs on all recent versions of Windows, is free to use, and is only a 0.8 MB download.
The default hotkey to activate the program is Ctrl plus the "zero" key on the numeric keypad, though you can change this if you wish. If you don't change it, remember that you'll need NumLock turned on.
You can download Dolphin Text Menu from http://www.animal-software.com/dolphin-text-editor-menu.php
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An Amazing utility. Thanks for letting me know.
I found doesn't run well on Win7 x64 (wasn't much better on x32 - throws same exception - didn't bother to read the words). Have long used PureText for basic stuff and TextMorph when I want something more complex (very similar options and a couple more besides). Combination of both is very useful and they work. Dolphin doesn't provide reason enough to change...
No problems running it on Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit for me, but as before, still not enough to become a regular utility for me.
Seems to have issues running on Win7 Pro x64. Keeps crashing when I tell it to run at Start Up.
Thanks r.schifreen, this looks like it could be quite useful sometimes, but as tOM wrote, I tend to use NotePad++ which I think does most if not all of what this does, and then a bunch more as well.
Just for interest since I piqued some people's interest with mentioning portable apps in another topic, I decided to unpack and portablize this and see what I could find it actually doing. It unpacked easily with Universal Extractor, I could easily read the Inno Setup install script and it appears not to do anything unusual or fancy at install time other than unpack a single executable, an icon file, a text license file and two URLs and create program files entries.
I ran it via JauntePE and portablized it, and it creates no registry entries either.
If anyone asks,yes, there should be an article on basic portablization coming sometime soon, Gizmo has been busy.
I just keep my fav text editor (PSpad) open in another window....
tOM
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